Also, Biblio had 3 copies for sale. I bought one. Two remain, in addition to the copy that is available from Powell's. Lesley On Wed, Apr 20, 2022 at 12:40 PM Luminita vollmer via pbs < pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> wrote: > Dear Kathleen and also Gareth Winters > > What I found from another nice and kind NewZealander is this: > Hi Luminita, > I live in Auckland, New Zealand. > The book ‘ Lily Species Throughout the World.’ is listed as being held by > the library of the Auckland Botanic Garden as an ‘in library use only’ > item. > I looked to see if there was a copy on Trademe (an NZ system like eBay) or > ABE books with no success, sorry. > Regards, > Wayne Carter. > > I also found out the book has been self published, and recently Bill passed > away. Unless someone in his family has access to his IP, I may not be able > to get a copy unless someone parts with an existing one ;( > > Since I'm not in NZ, I cannot go look at the book in the library, nor sign > it out, but a table of contents would be nice to have. We know of about 108 > different lilium species, but Bill Doreen claims he knows 200. I definitely > need to know those from 108 to 200! > If you could obtain that for me Kathleen, I would forever be indebted, and > will be able to pay with a species lily. ;) > > Thank you > Luminita > > __________ > Message: 11 > Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2022 19:53:28 -0700 > From: Kathleen Sayce <kathleen.sayce@gmail.com> > To: "pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net" > <pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> > Subject: [pbs] Lily Species Throughout the World > Message-ID: <61A3EB5B-FF8F-4A40-853B-953880BACB3F@gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > From Gareth Winters, New Zealand: > > That is one rare book. I have asked local booksellers and there is nothing > around, but I have also searched a number of different bookselling sites > and can see no sign of the book. My guess is the best place maybe through > a lily society? There are copies in some NZ libraries (only seven though) > mainly in reference libraries, but some in public libraries. Would it help > if I got a copy on interloan? I could copy anything you were interested > in. > . . . . > > Any interest in seeing the TOC and index, to see what species are covered > in this book? > > Kahtleen > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net > http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… > Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> > _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net>